Outside beckoned tennis and croquet, wild game, formal gardens and great mountain views.
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The eastern boundary of the Global Geopark extends beyond the settlement of Durness and Loch Eriboll to follow the Moine Thrust Zone, an internationally significant geological structure that helped 19th century geologists determine how the world's great mountain ranges were formed.
It is as if Pushkin is too great a mountain for any one writer to scale.
Krakow lies at the foot of the Tatras, a continuation of the great Carpathian mountain range that for centuries marked the border of the Habsburg empire.
On the border of Spain, with the great spiky Pyrenees mountain range as backdrop, the Midi-Pyrenees is an area characterized by magnificent architecture, medieval villages, river valleys, rolling farmlands, and food that is fabulous as only the French can deliver.
With a long ascent to about 5, 100 metres, this mountain is a great last test before heading to the glaciers.
As she bounds through the grass with the Great Danes and the Bernese Mountain Dogs, I believe that there was never a dog so popular and well adjusted as mine (and yet realize at the same time that this is the height of my own particular brand of insanity).
Four of the five Great Apes are found here: Mountain gorillas, Lowland gorillas, Chimpanzees and Bonobos.
Looking west from our bedroom's rear window we could sometimes see inland as far as the dark treeline of the Watchungs, a low-lying mountain range fringed by great estates and affluent, sparsely populated suburbs, the extreme edge of the known world and about eight miles from our house.
It is a richly structured landscape ranging from 600 m to 3, 000 m above sea level and encompasses typical ecosystems of the Central Alps such as mountain meadows and mires with great biodiversity.
We dream of a city that has a combination of history, vital cultural life, is prosperous, endowed with exciting physical features, such as great rivers, bays and harbours, mountain ranges, with at least one season with a gentle and comfortable climate.
The snow comes across the Great Salt Lake Desert, hits the Wasatch mountain range and gets pushed up and turned into light, but consistent powdery snow.
The Great Temple was first carved out of the mountain on the west bank of the Nile between 1274 and 1244BC, Ramses II's imposing temple was as much dedicated to the deified pharaoh himself as to the primeval Egyptian gods Ra-Horakhty, Amun and Ptah.
It is filled with great mini case studies that include Nordstroms, Eastern Mountain Sports, and Apple.
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The Great Pyramid, a 146-metre-high mountain of stone, was created by arranging 2.3 million limestone blocks, each about 2.5 tonnes, with astonishing accuracy.
It was great hearing live versions of tracks from the recent Mountain Meadows, and band even treated us to a couple of older tracks.
The more Francis suffered, the more he withdrew, and at a mountain hermitage, in 1224, he experienced the last great event of his life, the receiving of the stigmata.
Wakefield is a great testament to the ambition of AIM - the Artificial, Indoor and Mountain Series - to bring skiers and riders from grassroots level through to international competition standard.
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As the late, great economist Julian Simon demonstrated (both with clear economic logic and an unassailable mountain of data), there is a long-run tendency for standards of living to improve and for material scarcity to relax as a constraint rather than tighten.
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Most organizations are likewise sitting on a mountain of data, some of which they can measure, and a great deal more that is hidden and untracked.
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Mountain peaks, dank gorges, pristine lakes, tarns and wild moorlands extend triumphantly from the Great Western Tiers in the north to Derwent Bridge on the Lyell Hwy in the south.
The structure spans 15, 000 square feet, and sits 500 inside plus 250 more on an outdoor deck with sweeping views of the Sierras, and most of the time it functions as just another on-mountain ski lodge with restrooms and dining, albeit a very modern and environmentally friendly one with great food (and a full blown barbecue smokehouse outside).
"We have a great WWDC planned this year and can't wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, in a written statement.
But her true greatness lies in how, using a mountain of facts carefully gathered and presented, she could explain to a bewildered and anxious middle class the great economic question of her age.
It reveals itself to the Warren Miller crew not only as a mountain vista viewed through groves of palms and pomegranates from the valley floor in Marrakech, but also as great cirques and vast skiable terrain in the High Atlas itself.
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